by John Freund, CM | Mar 1, 2009 | Featured, Systemic change, Vincentian Family
The Commission for Promoting Systemic Change is committed to a Lenten series on Famvin. As part of that series, they have had a comic strip presentation prepared about the notion of systemic change and various successful systemic change projects. Fr. Robert Maloney...
by John Freund, CM | Feb 27, 2009 | Formation, Systemic change, Vincentian Family
This represents the final installment of the reports from the meeting in Mexico on Systemic Change and the Vincentian Family. Friday February 20, 2009 – Day Five and conclusion Prayer in the last day was prepared by Mexican delegation. Sr. Maria Magdalena Garcia...
by John Freund, CM | Feb 27, 2009 | Congregation of the Mission, Missions inter gentes, Systemic change, Vincentian Family
Fr. Joseph Loftus CM shares his perspectives on Lent from his perspective in China.a-chinese-ash-wednesday
by John Freund, CM | Feb 27, 2009 | Formation, Vincentian Family
Pope Benedict XVI’s Message for Lent may be found at http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/benedict_xvi/messages/lent/documents/hf_ben-xvi_mes_20081211_lent-2009_en.html A Lenten message from Fr. Gregory Gay, CM, superior general of the Congregation of the Mission...
by John Freund, CM | Feb 25, 2009 | Sisters of Charity, Vincentian Family
The 2009 New York St. Patrick’s Day Parade is dedicated to the Sisters of Charity. The Sisters are being honored for their many charitable works which began in New York City in 1817. The Sisters have marched up New York’s Fifth Avenue in many of these...
by John Freund, CM | Feb 25, 2009 | Daughters of Charity, Vincentian Family
Sister Bertrille, the “Flying Nun” of a 1960’s US TV series, was actually created by a writer named Marie Teresa Rios Versace who got the idea for this character when a friend spoke of seeing a nun with a large headpiece almost fly off her feet on...